Re: Re. Total Confusion
On 1 Jul 2001, John Hasler wrote:
> Sidney Brooks writes:
> > Why would you want to use wvdial when pon works? wvdial is just a hack
> > that tries to avoid making you set up pon.
Actually, 'twas I who wrote that.
>
> This is not true. Wvdial includes some rather sophisticated
> autoconfiguration code and does a much better job of finding the modem and
> creating init strings than pppconfig does.
Okay, fair enough - but once pon works it provides absolutely no more
functionality, so my answer was substantively correct.
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